BACKGROUND Medication errors are common in many settings and have important ramifications. Although there is growing research on rates and characteristics of medication errors in adult ambulatory settings, less is known about the paediatric ambulatory setting. OBJECTIVE To assess medication error rates in paediatric patients in ambulatory settings. METHODS The authors conducted a prospectiv...

A survey of psychological illness in medical outpatients reveals an incidence of 27-4% which is close to that of previous studies. The bulk of the cases are anxiety states and reactive depressions, and the great majority respond well to drugs and simple psychotherapy. The most important aetiological factors are shown to be disturbances of interpersonal relationships within the family with alcoh...